Quote by Crystal Eastman Download Open image ““Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.”” — Crystal Eastman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright Copy Share Image
“Giving people the opportunity to struggle rather than giving them the things they are struggling for will make them stronger.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.” — James Allen Copy Share Image
“The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“This world is such that it will let one live in whatever way he wants. But his own weakness does not let him do… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“A man who is not eager to help others has no chance to be a success.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There are men who will not take the world as it is, who see to change things, to make an advantage for themselves.” — Tim Stead Copy Share Image
“The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Average man is ever seeking refuge in failure so that he can surrender on the terms of his reason, but it is not possible… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with what other… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image